Seven Quarters

When I was about two and a half years sober, I used to visit a treatment center in Cleveland. There was a coffee shop in the building that I really enjoyed visiting, especially when I was feeling a little antsy and needed to talk to someone, because a lot of AA old-timers hung out there. I also visited with many new guys there because I had been taught that it was this, above all else, that would keep me sober, and I believed it.